Dragon Commander - Review @ EuroGamer

August 23rd, 2013, 10:31

EuroGamer has a new review for Dragon Commander giving the game a 7/10.

Everything in Dragon Commander (aside from these bosoms) is slightly underdeveloped. Still, what Larian has created is a coherent and idiosyncratic game that's remarkably enjoyable if you're a strategy fan who wants something less po-faced than the Total War series. None of the individual elements is particularly good but, together, they form something that's a lot more entertaining than you might expect; perhaps more entertaining than it deserves to be. Avoid the boring battles and instead focus on grand strategy and gay rights, and you'll find fun, imperfection, character, lovely visuals and occasional plot surprises in this ridiculous and very colourful game.

DC has plummeted rather quickly on the steam sales charts and is now out of the top 50 (lower than shadowrun returns, e.g., which is #40). Inspite of overall pretty favorable reviews. I hope it sold enough to not get Larian in trouble.

Originally Posted by GhanBuriGhan
DC has plummeted rather quickly on the steam sales charts and is now out of the top 50 (lower than shadowrun returns, e.g., which is #40). Inspite of overall pretty favorable reviews. I hope it sold enough to not get Larian in trouble.

Yes but Shadowrun mostly sold on steam, DC (hopefully) had good chunk of sales from GoG and Larian vault.

I doubt it does very well on GOG. Quite frankly, GOG is a joke for anything other than old games. It took them a whole week to put ap an update for Dragon Commander (after Larian gave a patch to their QA team) for example. The second problem is, that the game is so much more expensive than other titles, that GOG sells. A 40 dollar game isn't going to sell well on GOG no matter what (Witcher 2 was probably the only exception so far, but it was an AAA+ game, that got a lot of coverage).

Originally Posted by tolknaz
I doubt it does very well on GOG. Quite frankly, GOG is a joke for anything other than old games. It took them a whole week to put ap an update for Dragon Commander (after Larian gave a patch to their QA team) for example. The second problem is, that the game is so much more expensive than other titles, that GOG sells. A 40 dollar game isn't going to sell well on GOG no matter what (Witcher 2 was probably the only exception so far, but it was an AAA+ game, that got a lot of coverage).

I think we'll have to see - there's a bunch of kickstarters coming that will probably end up on GOG, Dragon Commander just happens to be ahead of the wave so probably is breaking the ice a little.

Originally Posted by rune_74
That's because it is just an average game.

I don't think it's average game, Everything about game is either above or bellow standards.Writing is very good, choices are very interesting.On the other hand RTS battles are bellow competition and map design is just bad imo, but dragon is very well implemented into it.Tactical map is simplistic but everything about it works well.One of those games you either love or hate.